Omniscience means having complete knowledge or knowing everything.
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So if you think about God having the attribute
of omniscience in this way it makes sense that God would know the outcomes of every possible choice from a decision that you or I make.
God's control of his powers magnifies his greatness, and it endears him to us, for it shows that his sovereignty truly is exercised not only
with omniscience and power but also with love and respect for the free will of his intelligent creation.
As
for omniscience — do you know who is going to win the 1986 world series?
Just
as omniscience means that all existence is regarded as intelligible, so holiness means that all action is involved in some moral order and that every moral achievement, however worthy, stands under a higher judgment.
Whether or not this year yields similar results is a matter of
omniscience which I will not pretend to have.
It would be a free will choice, it's just that the omniscient one already knows, that's
what omniscience is.
(In philosophical language: divine
omniscience does not imply human determination).
The commonly offered alternative is self -
limited omniscience, an argument of oxymoronic definitional fiat.
We all wear lenses which impact the message / words being transmitted
from Omniscience to individual understanding.
What wouldn't survive would be the egotistical self - appraisals of
near omniscience and great moral superiority.
Futhermore, if this is how you are trying show an incompatibility
between omniscience and omnipotence, then you continue to display a fundamental misunderstanding of omnipotence.
It's too late: it transpires that Frances's voiceover narration (articulated with a breezy
omniscience at odds with her neediness) is Legend's equivalent of Joe Gillis's narration in Sunset Boulevard.
Although I never made the entire leap to atheism,
because Omniscience is required to «know» God doesn't exist... I surmised he probably didn't, and decided to «bet» my eternal destiny that He didn't.
Despite the Xbox One's Kinect -
powered omniscience, it's easy to forget the thing's actually there.
And that, says Joanna Piros, a Vancouver - based communications coach who teaches at Sauder School of Business, makes people leery of those who
profess omniscience.
The ever -
increasing omniscience of internet giants like Facebook and Google has put many watchdog groups and civil rights lobbyists on red - alert.
@David Johnson If «knowledge is power» as the academic world loves to
instill omniscience justify omnipotence?
If you do not
accept omniscience then observation would point to this being the first stable form of civilization under Roman rule.
Since human intelligence is not
omniscience there is always something that we do not know, often something vitally important to arriving at a correct conclusion.
Even
without omniscience, we know the children we create will sin in various ways, yet we still have children.
The redefinition of omnipotence and
omniscience provide the groundwork for process thought's unique treatment of theodicy, the question of how the concept of an all powerful yet loving God can be reconciled with the existence of evil in the world.
10 Daniel Whedon commented that McCabe «will yet regret the publication» of his views because «the universal sense of man will never deny [absolute] omniscience.
It does mean
disclaiming omniscience about what one likes and assuming responsibility for what one does not if it is essential to ministry.
More accurately, their illiteracy is spiritual, and their kind of
omniscience brings a peculiarly modern anguish to the problematic knowledge of good and evil.
For the first time in her life she doubts her
own omniscience; she realizes, almost with the force of conversion, that there is more than she knows.
That is
why omniscience is indeed a necessary attribute of the first cause.
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